I have found the way to display recent blog posts on the homepage (using shortcode), however it only displays the # of posts I enter and there is no link at the bottom to the "older posts."

Can you help me? All I want to do is use the Homepage as the Bog page, working like a normal blog. I want it to show the 4 or 5 most recent posts (or a preview) with links to full posts and older posts.